How Much Data Does Your iPhone Say You've Used?

Just curious as to how much data your iPhone says you've used so far. Mine seems a little high seeing as how we've only had the phone for 1 day. It's at 2GB already and that's using safari, FB, pandora and some FaceTime. I know FaceTime tends to use a lot but when I had the iPhone 4 and used FT over 3G it still didn't use THAT much. How about everyone else?

Just curious as to how much data your iPhone says you've used so far. Mine seems a little high seeing as how we've only had the phone for 1 day. It's at 2GB already and that's using safari, FB, pandora and some FaceTime. I know FaceTime tends to use a lot but when I had the iPhone 4 and used FT over 3G it still didn't use THAT much. How about everyone else?

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Mine says 250mb in one day! Which considering I've been on wifi 90% of the time seems rather high.
I used to use about 1.5gb a month on my 4S.

Only thing I can think is that the 5 is counting wifi as cellular data?

Just curious as to how much data your iPhone says you've used so far. Mine seems a little high seeing as how we've only had the phone for 1 day. It's at 2GB already and that's using safari, FB, pandora and some FaceTime. I know FaceTime tends to use a lot but when I had the iPhone 4 and used FT over 3G it still didn't use THAT much. How about everyone else?

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Mine shows way more than what Verizon shows me using. Yesterday my phone was showing over 200mb, while Verizon had me at only 37mb. Also, today it showed up with another box below "cellular usage" listed as "tethered usage" and has been running data up on that even though I have no hotspot setup and Verizon shows nothing of the sort....clearly a bug.

You will be surprised. LTE chews through data. That's why the shared data is a huge no go for me. When i had. My Galaxy nexus and moto raze I was using 6-10 gb per month using the phone the same way i use my 4s and only use 1-2 gb per month.

I wish we could get these data threads together. I am having this issue and I have read about 7-8 high data usage threads but because the forums are so busy, they fall off into the forums before more people get to comment.

There seems to be some issues with some people. Would like to know if it is a setting, a bug or otherwise.

There has to be a bug an iOS 6. I just ran a test with 2 4s phones. Mine is on iOS 6 and my wife's is on iOS 5. I reset the usage and ran a single YouTube video via wifi. My phone showed 1kb Downloaded while my wife's showed 0 kb. If you extrapolate that glitch over a full day of using the phone that adds up. Seems like Apple has a QA issue.

I hope this is a bug. I've been with AT&T for four years and never exceeded 1.2 GB in a month. I averaged 300 MB. I just switched to Verizon for the LTE coverage. I've had the phone for exactly 24 hours and it's showing 137 MB sent and 635 MB received in the Settings app and 361 MB via the #data text. If this is accurate I've used as much in one day as I usually use in one month.

Does anyone know if LTE actually uses more data? Is the data used to load one web page on LTE the same as it is on 3G? With LTE you're surfing faster and can load more pages and view more content, but it seems like that should be the only difference.

I hope this is a bug. I've been with AT&T for four years and never exceeded 1.2 GB in a month. I averaged 300 MB. I just switched to Verizon for the LTE coverage. I've had the phone for exactly 24 hours and it's showing 137 MB sent and 635 MB received in the Settings app and 361 MB via the #data text. If this is accurate I've used as much in one day as I usually use in one month.

Does anyone know if LTE actually uses more data? Is the data used to load one web page on LTE the same as it is on 3G? With LTE you're surfing faster and can load more pages and view more content, but it seems like that should be the only difference.

It did get me looking at individual data use and I saw that yesterday, at 4:30pm, my wife's phone supposedly used 37Mb (says verizon's website). All we were doing around that time was setting her phone up (my old 4s). We were definately at my house and definately on wifi.

I've done lots of speed tests on the speedtest.net app since I got my phone yesterday and I just noticed something. Each time I run a speedtest on LTE my data usage increases by 10 MB! Wow, gotta ease up on the speedtests! I had no idea it was using so much data.

I've done lots of speed tests on the speedtest.net app since I got my phone yesterday and I just noticed something. Each time I run a speedtest on LTE my data usage increases by 10 MB! Wow, gotta ease up on the speedtests! I had no idea it was using so much data.

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It has to download a big data file in order to test the upload and download speed.

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